UFC fighter Ion Cutelaba under USADA investigation for potential blood doping

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Ion Cutelaba was removed from UFC 217 due to a potential anti-doping policy violation just one day before he was scheduled to fight Michal Oleksiejczuk in the New York event. The fighter would go on to release a statement to MMAUNO, claiming that the potential violation was simply a failure to provide documentation that would exhonerate him in time for his bout. The Moldovan fighter said of the USADA violation:


“I’ve done a legal medical procedure to reduce an inflammation and that procedure is called ozone therapy.

This procedure I don’t think is very well known by USADA, so USADA just wanted information about this procedure from the…


UFC fighter under USADA investigation for potential blood doping
 

Neural

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Ozone is well known and is banned by USADA/WADA under blood doping, he must think Moldova is the cutting edge of medical technology, this was around in the 1990's...
It's a shame too as he looked like a monster and his fight was great.